Attachment for oil-cans.



PATENTED A'UG. 4, 1903.

` M. J. IRLBAGHER.

ATTAGHMENT FOR ou. cANs.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 19 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 4, 1903.

MICHAEL J. IRLBACHER, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

ATTACHMENT FOR OIL-CANS.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 735,519, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed December 19. 1902. Serial No. 135,874. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that LMICHAEL J. IRLBACHEE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in attachments for oilcans, and has for its main object the construction of an attachment which may readily A be applied to the spout of an ordinary oilingcan, whereby the latter may be employed both as an oiling-can and as a torch.

I am aware that heretofore and before my invention combined Oilers and torches have been patented; but so far as I am aware these devices were such as to require especial construction of the oiler. My invention, on the contrary, aims to construct a device lwhich may be attached securely to the spout of the ordinary oiler and is extremely simple in its construction, strong, cheap to manufacture, and eective in its operation.

In describing my invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, and wherein like numerals of reference will be employed for indicating like parts throughout the views, in which- Figure 1 is aside elevation of an oiler with one form of my attachment applied thereto, the attachment being partly shown in section. Fig. V2 is a section taken on line 2 2 of Fig. l.

The preferable forni of the attachment as embodied in the showing made in Fig. 1 consists of a substantially cone-shaded receptacle l, having openings centrally of its ends whereby it may be slipped over the spout 2 of the oiler. As these spouts are usually tapered, the hole in the lower end of the recep-H tacle 1, which forms the reservoir for the illuminating-oil, is larger in diameter than the opening or hole in the upper end of the att tachment.

Where the attachment is applied to the oiler previous to shipping of the latter from the factory, the attachment may be preferably inserted over the spout 2 prior to bending the upper end of the latter, which bend is usually given to oilers of this type in order that the discharge end of the spout may be entered in the oil-hole of a bearing without requiring much elevation of the oiler-body above a horizontal line. ment has been placed in position on the spout it is suitably soldered, whereby to hold the same secure and also to prevent leakage. 'Ihe attachment is provided at one side, near its upper end, with a swell or enlargement 3, the upper end of which has a threaded opening, (not shown,) in which is threaded the wickspout 4. This wick-spout is curved or inclined outwardly awayfrom the oiler-spout 2, whereby when the oiler is held in a substantially horizontal plane the flame from the wick will be in a more upright position and give a better light than would be obtained were the spout 4. in alinement with the spout 2, as willbe evident. A,The wick-spout is of ordinaryconstruction, the same being provided at its inner end with a screw-threaded nipple,whichis received in theenlargement 3.

When it is desired to ll the receptacle 1, the wick-spout is removed and the oil supplied through the orifice of lthe cylindrical enlargement 3.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the spout of the oilcan, a torch attachment comprising a receptacle formed in its upper and lower ends with openings, said receptacle being formed at one side with an enlargement, and afwick-spout arranged in an opening in the enlargement of said receptacle, said spout projecting through the openings of said attachment, substantially as and for thev purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL J. IRLBACHER.

Witnesses:

H. C. EVEET, A. M. WILSON.

After the attach- 

